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Donald Trump jnr and his father   after the first presidential debate last summer. Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Trump administration under pressure after Russia emails released
  • US
  • 23:02

Donald Trump jnr enthusiastically welcomed offer of Russian assistance

  • Email tweet caps extraordinary few days
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Inside the headquarters of Boko Haram’s former caliphate Recently returned people sit in a camp for the displaced in Gwoza, Borno State, northeast Nigeria. Photograph: Sally Hayden
  • Africa
  • 01:00

Former captives describe brutal executions and militants celebrating suicide bombings

Veil ban does not breach human rights law, European court rules Niqab ban: Belgium was entitled to impose restrictions to ensure the principles of “living together”, according to the European Court of Human Rights. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty
  • Europe
  • 21:21

Human rights judges say Belgian niqab ban ‘protects others’ freedoms’

Boris Johnson accuses EU of extortion over Brexit bill British foreign secretary Boris Johnson speaks in the House of Commons, London, England. Photograph: PA Wire
  • UK
  • 19:24

British foreign secretary says remaining member states can ‘go whistle’ for the money

Germany rebukes China over footage of Liu Xiaobo’s treatment posted online Pro-democracy activists stage a sit-in protest demanding the release of Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, outside China’s Liaison Office in Hong Kong. Photograph: Bobby Yip/Reuters
  • Asia-Pacific
  • 23:04

One clip of ailing Nobel winner shows doctors praising cancer care he is receiving

Boy dies after allergic reaction to cheese ‘forced’ on him at school Great Ormond Street: Karanbir Cheema died on Sunday, after 10 days at the London children’s hospital. Photograph: Peter MacDiarmid/Getty
  • UK
  • 19:35

London police investigate death of 13-year-old Karanbir Cheema

Indian state beefs up efforts to protect cows Stray cattle   in front of the state legislature of Karnataka in Bengaluru, India, on July 4th. Photograph: Jagadeesh NV/EPA
  • Asia-Pacific
  • 17:28

Maharashtra to deploy a new kit that can test if a meat sample contains the sacred animal

Features & Opinion

Inside the headquarters of Boko Haram’s former caliphate Inside the headquarters of Boko Haram’s former caliphate

Former captives describe brutal executions and militants celebrating suicide bombings

Donald Trump jnr’s email tweet caps extraordinary few days Donald Trump jnr’s email tweet caps extraordinary few days

US president’s eldest son at centre of latest twist in story of Russia election interference

Theresa May’s speech shows the limits of her insecure employment Theresa May’s speech shows the limits of her insecure employment

Billed as a relaunch of her premiership, it actually illustrated her precarious position

Trump campaign emails: Russia – Clinton – private and confidential Trump campaign emails: Russia – Clinton – private and confidential

Donald Trump jnr releases email chain on Twitter

Srebrenica survivors still struggling against Serb genocide denial Srebrenica survivors still struggling against Serb genocide denial

Bosnian Serb mayor of 1995 massacre town not invited to commemoration events

Kenya’s opposition candidate makes gains on incumbent president Kenya’s opposition candidate makes gains on incumbent president

Realignment of political forces and fears of tribal violence ahead of August 8th election

Our Correspondents

Maureen Dowd Maureen Dowd -

Donald Trump’s Putin-shaped rabbit hole

Suzanne Lynch Suzanne Lynch - Washington Correspondent

Donald Trump’s aggressive tweeting leads to heightened sense of tension

Denis Staunton Denis Staunton - London Editor

North dominating more than political stage in London

Patrick Smyth Patrick Smyth - Foreign Policy Editor

May’s fixation on European courts ties UK’s hands in Brexit talks

Pro-democracy activists stage a sit-in protest demanding the release of Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, outside China’s Liaison Office in Hong Kong. Photograph: Bobby Yip/Reuters Germany rebukes China over footage of Liu Xiaobo’s treatment posted online
  • Asia-Pacific
  • July 11, 2017, 23:04

One clip of ailing Nobel winner shows doctors praising cancer care he is receiving

Donald Trump jnr and his father   after the first presidential debate last summer. Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Trump administration under pressure after Russia emails released
  • US
  • July 11, 2017, 23:02

Donald Trump jnr enthusiastically welcomed offer of Russian assistance

Niqab ban: Belgium was entitled to impose restrictions to ensure the principles of “living together”, according to the European Court of Human Rights. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Veil ban does not breach human rights law, European court rules
  • Europe
  • July 11, 2017, 21:21

Human rights judges say Belgian niqab ban ‘protects others’ freedoms’

Great Ormond Street: Karanbir Cheema died on Sunday, after 10 days at the London children’s hospital. Photograph: Peter MacDiarmid/Getty Boy dies after allergic reaction to cheese ‘forced’ on him at school
  • UK
  • July 11, 2017, 19:35

London police investigate death of 13-year-old Karanbir Cheema

British foreign secretary Boris Johnson speaks in the House of Commons, London, England. Photograph: PA Wire Boris Johnson accuses EU of extortion over Brexit bill
  • UK
  • July 11, 2017, 19:24

British foreign secretary says remaining member states can ‘go whistle’ for the money

Stray cattle   in front of the state legislature of Karnataka in Bengaluru, India, on July 4th. Photograph: Jagadeesh NV/EPA Indian state beefs up efforts to protect cows
  • Asia-Pacific
  • July 11, 2017, 17:28

Maharashtra to deploy a new kit that can test if a meat sample contains the sacred animal

Trump campaign: Donald Trump snr with his eldest son, Donald Trump jnr, in the run-up to the 2016 US election. Photograph: Rick Wilking/Pool/Getty Donald Trump jnr on Russians’ Clinton offer: ‘I love it’
  • US
  • July 11, 2017, 17:06

Email said ‘incriminating’ information was part of Moscow support for Trump snr

Contaminated blood scandal: the leaders of six UK political parties, among them the Democratic Unionists, had called for a public inquiry into the affair. Photograph: PA Wire UK contaminated blood scandal: Theresa May orders inquiry
  • UK
  • July 11, 2017, 16:39

2,400 people died after being infected with hepatitis C and HIV in 1970s and 1980s

Roses are placed to mark the 20th anniversary of the kidnapping and murder of Miguel Ángel Blanco in Ermua, the Basque Country town where he was a Popular Party councillor. Photograph: Luis Tejido/EPA Anniversary of notorious Eta killing reopens old wounds in Spain
  • Europe
  • July 11, 2017, 16:36

Death of Miguel Ángel Blanco 20 years ago remembered with acrimony

Gold Coast University Hospital: a 37-year-old Irish man is in an induced coma after a construction-site fall in Brisbane. Photograph: Shiftchange/WC Irish man critical after multistorey fall at Brisbane construction site
  • Asia-Pacific
  • July 11, 2017, 15:02

37-year-old plasterer in induced coma at Gold Coast hospital

US President Donald Trump, seen here with British prime minister  Theresa May,  is understood to be planning to visit the UK next year. Photograph: AFP Donald Trump to make state visit to Britain next year
  • UK
  • July 11, 2017, 13:02

Decision leaves open possibility of low-key visit to London before the end of this year

 A US Navy KC-130 refuelling aircraft crashed into a field in Mississippi with the loss of 16 lives. Photograph: EPA Sixteen dead after US military plane crashes in Mississippi
  • US
  • July 11, 2017, 06:58

Witness says he heard a boom and saw KC-130 aircraft spiralling to ground

Donald Trump jnr: said he agreed to meet the Russian lawyer at Trump Tower as he was told she may have had “information helpful to the campaign”. Photograph: Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AFP/Getty Images Trump jnr confirms meeting with lawyer linked to Kremlin
  • US
  • July 11, 2017, 05:00

President had no knowledge of meeting until recent days, spokeswoman says

Big tobacco companies have fought vigorously against the Australian government’s plain packaging laws since they were introduced in 2011. File photograph: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire Philip Morris to pay millions to Australia on failed plain packaging case
  • Asia-Pacific
  • July 10, 2017, 20:19

Big tobacco battle: Final costs figure kept secret but reported as being up to €33.36m

Rudolf Nureyev: the dancer working with Erik Bruhn, with whom he had a long affair, in 1965. Photograph: Jack Mitchell/Getty Bolshoi pulls ‘Nureyev’ premiere amid concerns of Kremlin interference
  • Europe
  • July 10, 2017, 19:56

Insiders fear censor objected to ballet’s portrayal of hero’s homosexuality

US president Donald Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping prior to their meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images China and US step up co-operation over North Korean nuclear crisis
  • US
  • July 10, 2017, 19:46

President Xi reiterates Chinese view that dialogue is needed to resolve standoff

N-word: Theresa May’s minority government has even fewer votes in Westminster after withdrawing the whip  from  Anne Marie Morris. Photograph: Jason Alden/pool/EPA Theresa May to appeal for Labour to work with her
  • UK
  • July 10, 2017, 19:21

Offer to Corbyn comes amid speculation about plan to push PM out of Downing Street

A cyclist  uses a smartphone in Shanghai on July 3rd. A Dutch telecom company has developed a new app that shuts down your mobile phone signal once you unlock and mount your bike. File photograph: Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images Text and ride? App jams smartphone signal when on your bike
  • Europe
  • July 10, 2017, 19:17

Smart indeed: Dutch firm’s aim is to halt teenage practice of texting while cycling

Charlie Gard’s parents Connie Yates and Chris Gard leave after a hearing at the High Court in London on Monday. Photograph:  Neil Hall/Reuters Charlie Gard’s parents begin new legal bid to secure US treatment
  • UK
  • July 10, 2017, 18:48

British court has previously ruled that terminally-ill baby should be allowed to ‘die with dignity’

Iraqi prime minister Haider al-Abadi  in Mosul on Sunday, a day before he formally declared victory over Islamic State. Photograph:  Iraqi prime minister media office/via Reuters Iraqi prime minister formally declares victory over Isis in Mosul
  • Middle East
  • July 10, 2017, 18:32

Fall of the city in effect marks the end of the Iraqi half of the Islamic State caliphate

G20 summit: President Trump arrives back at the White House on Saturday. Photograph:  Al Drago/New York Times Trump rows back from cybersecurity deal with Putin
  • US
  • July 10, 2017, 18:17

Move comes after president’s son said to have met Russian lawyer for damaging Hillary Clinton information

Anne Marie Morris campaigned to leave the European Union in the 2016 referendum. File photograph: Conservative Party/PA Wire Tory politician suspended over use of racist phrase
  • UK
  • July 10, 2017, 18:15

Theresa May says comment by MP Anne Marie Morris ‘completely unacceptable’

Campaigners hold a banner outside the High Court in London. Photograph: PA UK arms exports to Saudi Arabia can continue, British court rules
  • UK
  • July 10, 2017, 12:16

Saudi Arabia, UK’s largest weapons client, bought £3bn of British arms in last two years

The fire at London famous Camden Lock Market. Photograph: London Fire Brigade via Twitter Seventy firefighters tackle blaze at London’s Camden Lock Market
  • UK
  • July 10, 2017, 10:18

It is second time in recent years the north London market has been hit by a serious fire

Lieut Stephen Keane of the cavalry reconnaissance section looking out across the UN buffer zone into Syria. Photograph: Irish Defence Forces Heavy machine gun fire lands on Irish Golan base
  • Middle East
  • July 10, 2017, 09:13

Irish troops at Camp Ziouani forced to take cover during intense fighting

 Undated family handout file photo of Charlie Gard. Photograph: PA Charlie Gard’s mother pleads for him to be treated in the US
  • UK
  • July 10, 2017, 08:43

Parents of critically ill baby begin legal bid for him to be allowed to travel for treatment

 Iraqi prime minister Haider al-Abadi shakes hands with police and army officers upon his arrival in Mosul.  Photograph: Iraqi prime minister’s press office/AFP/Getty Images Iraq declares ‘victory’ over Islamic State in Mosul
  • Middle East
  • July 10, 2017, 07:13

Iraqi troops fight to clear militants that are holding onto small area of the Old City

Cardinal George Pell said in a  in a statement he ‘consulted his doctors and on their advice took several days to return home’. File photograph: Remo Casilli/Reuters Cardinal Pell arrives in Australia to face sexual offence charges
  • Asia-Pacific
  • July 10, 2017, 06:49

The Vatican cleric, who is the economic adviser to Pope Francis, will appear before court

 Donald Trump jnr  in a lift at  Trump Tower in New York earlier this year. Photograph: Reuters  Donald Trump son ‘met Russia lawyer for Clinton information’
  • US
  • July 10, 2017, 06:25

Trump jr says ‘it quickly became clear that she had no meaningful information’

Michel Barnier: This week he will set out the negotiating team’s perspective on the UK offer.  Photograph: Aurore Belot/AFP/Getty Images MEPs warn of UK’s risk of ‘second class of citizenship’
  • UK
  • July 10, 2017, 01:00

Letter is key show of political unity and purpose on Brexit from across parliament

 Donald Trump jnr:  It is unclear whether the Russian lawyer he met in June 2016, Natalia Veselnitskaya, produced any  compromising information about Hillary Clinton. Photograph: Al Drago/The New York Times Trump’s son met Russian lawyer to get information on Clinton
  • US
  • July 9, 2017, 23:55

Details of 2016 meeting, attended by campaign chairman and Kushner, unknown

US president Donald Trump arrives back at the White House in Washington, DC, after the G20 summit. Photograph: Al Drago/The New York Times Australian journalist’s Trump takedown goes viral
  • World
  • July 9, 2017, 22:16

Chris Uhlmann describes US president as ‘isolated and friendless’ in the clip

Members of Libyan National Army gather after the liberation of Islamist militants’ last stronghold in Benghazi, Libya, last week. Photograph: Esam Omran Al-Fetori/Reuters Heavy clashes break out east of Libya's capital
  • Africa
  • July 9, 2017, 20:56

Local authorities advising Tripoli residents to evacuate and stay away from the area

Supporters of Turkey’s main opposition party, the Republican People’s Party,  attend a rally in the Maltepe district of Istanbul. Photograph: Yasin Akgul/AFP/Getty Images Turkish opposition stages huge protest rally in Istanbul
  • Europe
  • July 9, 2017, 20:04

Hundreds of thousands mark the end of a 25-day march against Erdogan crackdown

Ukraine’s president Petro Poroshenko and US secretary of state Rex Tillerson greet each other in  Kiev on July 9th, 2017.  Photograph: Sergei SUPINSKY/AFP/Getty Images Onus on Russia to end Ukraine war, says US secretary of state
  • Europe
  • July 9, 2017, 19:52

Rex Tillerson in talks in Kiev as Donald Trump calls for co-operation with Moscow

Vince Cable: former business secretary  said he was beginning to think Britain would never leave the EU.  Photograph:   Jeff Overs/BBC/PA Wire ‘Brexit may never happen,’ says incoming Liberal Democrat leader
  • UK
  • July 9, 2017, 19:48

Vince Cable invites political ‘refugees’ to jump ship from pro-Brexit Labour party

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan: Ankara says Berlin needs to improve its attitude towards Turkey. Photograph:  Tobias Schwarz/AFP/Getty Germany begins withdrawing troops from Turkish air base
  • Europe
  • July 9, 2017, 18:47

Refusal to permit German lawmakers to visit Incirlik speeds removal of military resources

Iraqi Army soldiers   celebrate  gains   against Islamic State militants   in the Old City of Mosul, Iraq, on Sunday. Photograph: Felipe Dana/AP Isis refocuses on insurgency roots as state-building project ends
  • Middle East
  • July 9, 2017, 18:22

Loss of Mosul and group’s capital Raqqa does not spell final defeat for Islamic State

US president Donald Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping  prior to a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images White House mixes up China and Taiwan in G20 statement
  • World
  • July 9, 2017, 15:24

Trump press secretary mistakenly identifies Xi Jinping as the leader of the island nation

Damaged buildings in a rebel-held part of the southern city of Dera in June. File photograph: Reuters US-Russian ceasefire holding in southwestern Syria
  • Middle East
  • July 9, 2017, 12:06

British monitor says calm prevailing following Sunday morning’s ceafefire

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Veil ban does not breach human rights law, European court rules 21:21
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